Actually, Huckabee only wanted to lock away the homosexuals with aids, so I guess their views aren't quite the same. Though I think the Bible can allow for stoning in some instances. Better kiss those swing voters, goodbye - except for the gays. They might be diseased. NRO adds some context. This wasn't a position from the eighties, it was well after Aids was understood in 1992.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, surging in Iowa polls in the Republican presidential race, wrote on a questionnaire while running for U.S. Senate in 1992 that homosexuality is "aberrant" and "sinful."
"I feel homosexuality is an aberrant, unnatural, and sinful lifestyle, and we now know it can pose a dangerous public health risk," Huckabee wrote in the questionnaire for The Associated Press, which reported the answer on Saturday.
"If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague....


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Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, surging in Iowa polls in the Republican presidential race, wrote on a questionnaire while running for U.S. Senate in 1992 that homosexuality is "aberrant" and "sinful."
"I feel homosexuality is an aberrant, unnatural, and sinful lifestyle, and we now know it can pose a dangerous public health risk," Huckabee wrote in the questionnaire for The Associated Press, which reported the answer on Saturday.
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This is very true, and he should stand upon his convictions.
The very idea that this is in question - and even more so, that homosexuality is increasingly being validated as an acceptable and even wholesome alternative lifestyle should call us to seriously question our moral compass as a nation - and whether or not we have swallowed the entire gay agenda hook, line, and stinker.
Concerning what sodomites of adult age to each other behind closed doors - that is certainly their own affair. But it is worrisome that the MSM would have us believe that they (sodomites/homosexuals) a very SMALL (under 3%) of the population, form a mainstream class of values that we must accept as the normal, or else be relegated to the dens of racists, nazis, murderers, and enemies of the Constitution and the Republic.
Despite the reasons for public safety (spread of STDs in general) or the promotion of a godless and evil lifestyle, or corrupting our youth - the comparison of Mike Huckabee to Ahmadinejad is not very fair.
While Huckabee's ideas to isolate the HIV population was not founded upon the correct understanding of the transmission of HIV between people, this does not mean that he is thinking to kill gays or lesbians or hang them from mobile cranes.
Or summarily declare that they do not exist, thus dehumanizing them and making it all the more easy to kill any such aberrant persons who do not fit his old.
Posted by: seekeronos | Saturday, December 08, 2007 at 07:42 PM
Speaking of swallowing things hook, line and sinker - I hope you have a good day at church later this morning.
Posted by: mulder | Sunday, December 09, 2007 at 03:44 AM
"--- Speaking of swallowing things hook, line and sinker - I hope you have a good day at church later this morning. ---"
I detect snark, dear Mr. Mulder.
Wherefore?
God's Word clearly says that the homosexual lifestyle (along with sexual immorality in general) is unacceptable, and that chasing after strange flesh has certain results that will be reaped.
When an entire society embraces the sodomite lifestyle - along with it, a wicked an exceedingly selfish and boastfully proud in their sins, with fullness of food, and abundance of idleness - that society then becomes little more than a copy of that ancient city, Sodom, along with Gomorrah which God destroyed with fire and brimstone from Heaven.
But in case you somehow failed to get my point - I'll repeat it for you here:
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While Huckabee's ideas to isolate the HIV population was not founded upon the correct understanding of the transmission of HIV between people...
(are you paying attention MUlder? This is the important part...)
... this *does not* mean that he is thinking to kill gays or lesbians or hang them from mobile cranes.
Or summarily declare that they do not exist, thus dehumanizing them and making it all the more easy to kill any such aberrant persons who do not fit his old.
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Shorter version: Huckabee != Ahmadinejad.
Posted by: seekeronos | Sunday, December 09, 2007 at 06:00 AM
While I agree with much of opinion here, one thinI would like to point out: Morale teachings should not be used to run for president, but rather in churches, schools, families etc.. Huckabee is a phony for the simple fact, that now he compromises for what he once believed for personal gain.
Jesus taught 'to give God what is his, and give Ceasar what his his"!
Yes, progressives, and churches have assisted in destruction of the moral fabric, forcing social, and perversive education to accept homosexuals, lesbian, transsexuals etc..on our children. Using political power, and influence to introduce such shameful, and pervert action, as well as killing of millions of babies, allowing unfettered invasion has all once occured before, and the result was total destruction of a society known as Soddom and Gemorrhah.
Take the weather disasters, earthquakes, jihadist fascism, middle east threat of upcoming nuclear destruction, we are on a collision course foretold in the Bible, Ezekial, Daniel, Isiahah, Jeremiah.
These issues are not by accident, and although the Goreacle of deception may win, ultimatly, the weather is controlled by our Creator, and changed when he feels he should warn people to wake up! So far, no notice has been taken.
Posted by: icrutchfield | Sunday, December 09, 2007 at 08:48 AM
seek - Huckabee, Ahmadinejad and yourself are similar in that you all belong to a group of people that discriminate against homosexuality and hide behind "god's word" - a piece of static literature that will not change or be improved as society moves forward and new thoughts are introduced.
The details you mention about mobile cranes and such is just splitting hairs.
Posted by: mulder | Monday, December 10, 2007 at 05:42 PM